Collar and necktie fastener for shirt-bands.



JOHN J. A. MILLER, or DENVER, COLORADO.

COLLAR AND NECKTIE FASTENER FOR SHIRT-BANDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

Application tiled November 28. 1906. Serial No. 345,530.

T o all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it'known that I, JOHN J. A. MILLER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Collar and 'Necktie Fastener for Shirt-Bands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in collar and necktie holders for the neck bands of shirts, and the object of my invention isz,

to provide a simple device that can be made of spring steel or brass or aluminium or of any other suitable metal that can be quickly applied to the button holes of the collar bands, and also of the cuil. bands, of shirts. I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a side view partly in section, showing the improved fastener in position to secure together the neck-band of the shirt and a collar. Fig. 2, is a rear view of a collar secured to the neck-band of a shirt by the improved fastener, a neck-tie being shown held under the tongue of the fastener to prevent its slipping up. Fig. 3, is an enlarged perspective view of the fastener. And Fig. 4, is an enlarged sectional view through a collar band and collar, more clearly illustrating the function of the fastener.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1, designates a narrow thin strip of metal, preferably a mild spring steel or brass, although any Other metal may be used.

My collar and neck-tie holder is preferably made of one piece of material, by stamping it out of sheet metal, although if desired more than one piece of material may be used in its construction, and consists of a body portion or shank 4, having connected thereto at its ends respectively a tongue lortion 2, and a base or stop portion 7.

his base` portion is a ilat piece adapted to lie within4 the folds of the collar band of the shirt, and revent.accidental displacement of the co ar holder from the button hole of the shirt band.

The shank portion 4 consists of a portion integral with the base 7 and bent upon the base 7, forming a short flat bend 5, at the This shank or distance liat against the base, and parallel with 1t; and from the Opposite end of this shank or body portion a portion is bent to extend a short distance at an `angle of about 45 degrees from the base and body or shank portions. The tongue portion 2, is connected to the shank or body portion by a bend 3, and lies in a plane approximately parallel to that of the base portion and that of the flat portion of the shank, and the tongue is provided at its end with an outwardly curved lip.

The application of my new collar and neck-tie holder to the neck-band and to a collar and neck-tie, is as follows: The tongue of the collar and neck-tie holder is inserted into the button hole 9, of the shirt band first by turning the holder tongue end up and pushing the tongue of the holder through the two button holes 9, of the ends of the shirt, as l have illustrated the holder applied to a shirt that opens at the back of the neck. The tongue is then turned downward and pulled downward until its curved end 5 engages the lower edge of the button hole, when the free end of the body portion will hang down and also the tongue, as shown in Fig. et, while the holding end 7 will extend vertically upward against the top ofv the button fold 8 of the shirt, which is used on all shirts to keep the collar holder or a collar button from bearing directly againstV the neck. The ends of the back of the shirt are then connected together by the holder, and the wearer, to put on a collar, places the button hole of the collar over the slightly outward curved end of the tongue and draws the button hole of the collar up against the curved end 3 between the tongue and the body portion of the collar holder. Then the neck-tie 10 is also placed under the tongue and drawn up to the curved end 3. The thickness of the neck-tie and the collar end of the ends of the neck band of the shirt will fill the space between the tongue and the body of the holder to the extent of fitting snugly between them; consequently they are firmly fastened to the holder, and the holder to the shirt, as it can not become detached from the button holes without turning the holder upside down.

Having described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: 4

In a collar and neck-tie holder for the neck end of the body or shank. body portion is arranged to lie for a short bands of shirts, a narrow band Of metal consisting of a central body or shank portion, donsistingof a straightlower end portion and an u per end ortion offset at an acute angle and adaptedp to extend outward and 5 away from the side of said body portion and terminate in a curved end portion, which is bent over upon itself and extends as a tongue portion parallel to and in the same direction from said curved end as the said 10 lower end straight portion of said body or shank portion, said tongue extending below said body portion and having an outwardly curved lip adapted to fit in button holes, a vertically extending base or stop portion eX- tending from the opposite end portion ofthe 15 l body or shank portion from the said tongue portion and bent upon said shank or body portion and extendmg above the body p0rtion in an opposite direction from said tongue portion,.and adapted to prevent said holder 20 and the collarand necktie from accidental disfillacement from the neck band.

testimony whereof I aHiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

.l JOHN J. A. MILLER.

Witnesses:

G. SARGENT ELLIOTT, ADELLA M. FowLE. 

